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ubiquity package

  1. Bug #1049549
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1049549

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Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote : Re: Ubiquity proposes useless options that break Windows boot

"If I have multiple linux distributions I may want to re-install grub to the partition with '/boot' from the other install, not the current one." ----> why would you want to do that?
because grub is multi-os bootloader. Regardless of where it is installed: so if I have /dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda3 and my /boot is on /dev/sda2 and fedora on /dev/sda1 & ubuntu on /dev/sda3, it actually does makes sense to install grub-pc stage1 bootcode into /dev/sda. (we are not talking about the extra files which will still end up on the file system)

"Maybe I'm done with windows, do not want to boot it but want to keep it for accessing it's files?" ----> in this case you don't need to install GRUB into Windows PBR.

Well it is recommended by grub upstream to install stage1 onto /dev/sda and not the partitions e.g. /dev/sda3

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Just to be clear:
If Windows is installed onto /dev/sda1 you are saying it is potentially harmful to install grub into /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda?